Team FOLON, Fallout: London’s creators, have long been open about their desire for people to create mods that put fresh twists on or add stuff to their massive mod, and they’ve now done a bit of leading by example in that regard, with a mod that injects some chaos into your playthrough via Baldur's Gate 3-esque dice rolls.

After all, it’s not like British culture and the established dangers of the post-apocalypse are already enough to keep you on your toes as you explore the mod’s massive wasteland.

The mod in question is the brainchild of Jordan ‘SunnyDelight’ Albon, Team FOLON’s lead 3D artist. They’re clearly a bit of a TTRPG fan, since their creation - dubbed ‘NAT20’ adds a massive twenty-sided dice to your character’s inventory that they can take out and activate to roll for random outcomes.

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Fallout: London’s massive, but naturally there’s still some stuff that didn’t quite make it into the Fallout 4 mod. For example, in addition to the whole cut Wild Card questline that’ll be arriving in a future update, the team had a go at making rideable horses and bikes.

Yep, if you’ve not run into Fallout: London’s Sleipnir - eight-legged post-apocalyptic horses which look just as terrifying and goofy as they sound - there were once plans to let you clip clop about the capital on one of them. Sadly, the mutated broncos shared a bit too much DNA with their Elder Scrolls cousins to make them worth keeping in.

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“Don’t.”

That’s the first thing Fallout: London project manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter, through a cheeky grin and a chuckle, says when I ask him, aside from the obvious point of not being a modding novice, what advice he might give to someone who sees the massive Fallout 4 mod and decides to embark on a similar project of their own.

He’s obviously joking, but there's a serious point to be made in there - don’t sign up for something like this unless you’ve got a good idea of what you’re in for and are sure you want to do it.

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The first big patch for Fallout: London has now arrived and is full of fixes for the various technical teething issues which afflicted the launch version of the mod, just as Team FOLON had said it would be.

This should mean you’re finally able to drop into Blighty without having to worry about running into as many annoying gremlins as we did while reviewing the massive mod. Fallout: London’s definitely worth braving some crashes and bugs for, but hopefully this update’ll mean you’ve got way less of that to worry about.

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Fallout: London has been a big hit with fans, and it sounds like the team that made it wants to stick together to make their own games.

It was a long time coming, but the highly anticipated mod Fallout: London finally came out last month, and it's been incredibly well received so far, including by our own Mark who reviewed the DLC-sized mod and gave it four out of five stars. Of course, despite still having to deal with various bugs, and promising more content further down the line, the Fallout: London team has plans beyond its massive mod. The mod's project lead Dean Carter recently spoke with the BBC about the aftermath of the project, discussing the team's feelings on having released it, and what's next for them (thanks, PCGamesN). Quite notably, Carter shared that they will "hopefully" go on to make their own indie studio so they can pay the bills.

Carter explained that "as much as I love the fact that this is a free project - that we can offer this thing for free for all the community - free doesn't pay our bills." He went on to say, "What has been great for us is that a lot of people who have really enjoyed [Fallout: London] have donated to us, and we're channelling that into Team Folon, which is what we're going to be moving into. We should hopefully launch our own indie games company which will allow us to come up with our own ideas, create our own games, and work… without having to speak to anyone above us, such as Bethesda, or anything like that.

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“I studied at University College London where they have the Jeremy Bentham auto-icon and the whole concept of that is weird,” Fallout: London project manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter tells me.

“For those that don't know, basically he mummified himself and he called it his auto-icon and in his little box in UCL is his skeleton. His head didn’t get mummified correctly, so it all melted, so they gave him like a plastic wax head,” he continues. “Literally, I love the idea so much because that alone in the real world - it's there now - seemed very Fallout. I was like, let's put Futurama in this kind of deal. We're gonna whack that head in a glass thing sitting on a Protectron and yeah, the rest is what you see in the mod.”

Thus was born Fallout: London’s Jeremy Bentham bot, a mechanical marvel which lets you see just how dire a failed mummification can be for a person’s hairline. Oh, and it also lets you debate the state of post-apocalyptic London society with the founder of modern utilitarian philosophy.

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Right, so, as you know, us Fallout fans have been really hard done by when it's come to modders and companies doing things with this series we like so far in 2024. It definitely isn't like we've had a Fallout TV Series, Fallout 76 things, and most recently Fallout: London's release, all giving us Fallout stuff to do.

Well, if you've still got room in your schedule for more Fallout stuff, I've got some good news. The modding team behind Fallout: Vault 13, a project dedicated to remaking the very first Fallout game as a Fallout 4 total conversion mod, has just delivered the demo it'd previously told us all to look out for once the summer hit.

To play the demo, you'll need to head on over to Nexus Mods, where you'll find it under exactly the name you'd expect 'Fallout Vault 13 - Demo'. The team says it's "being released as an early access preview to gather feedback from players".

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Paying for mods. If you’ve ever said those three words to anyone who plays games or makes mods for them, odds are you got a pretty strongly held opinion in response, or at least an acknowledgment that - as many Facebook relationship statuses say - it’s complicated.

With Bethesda’s latest attempt at creating a system designed to facilitate such a thing having proven pretty much as polarising as its predecessors, we recently asked Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter, project manager of the massive and free Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, how he views the current state of play when it comes to whether mods are paid, or remain free to play.

“I wish they would just choose something,” Carter said when I brought up Bethesda’s Creations in the interview, which also featured chat about the cut quest line that’ll be arriving in a future update and how both John Bercow and Neil Newbon ended up starring in it.

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Fallout: London, the DLC-sized mod — which is a complete lie given how gargantuan this mod is — from Team FOLON launched on July 25. Now that the team at VG247 has had enough time to wet their appetites and see what this highly-anticipated mod is all about, we decided to discuss and share a few of our favorite things across post-apocalyptic London.

The mod is, unsurprisingly, full of neat Britishisms (not that there’s anything great about being British), and Easter eggs which are a real joy to experience. Sure, Fallout: London hasn’t been without its fair share of bugs and crashes (which is authentic to the Bethesda experience, if you ask me), but this hasn’t removed from the amazing amount of passion and detail that has gone into making Fallout: London a reality.

Without further ado, here are some of our favourite things in Fallout: London.

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So you’ve wandered into Fallout: London’s Westminster and found yourself headed for the Palace, only to be turned away until you have a petition full of signatures from London’s wacky array of leaders. You spend your time doing just that, only for it to, well, be for nothing. As you venture down beneath the ‘Palace’, the All to Pot quest begins.

Your route to the Palace is revealed to not be that at all, and instead, your efforts as Wayfarer have landed you in a Gentry Prison, where inmates are incinerated and subject to all kinds of gruesome executions. In this guide, we explain exactly how to escape the Gentry Prison in Fallout: London’s All to Pot quest.

After wrapping up the lengthy Hear Ye, Hear Ye quest in an attempt to reach the Palace in Fallout: London, you’ll quickly find that you have been tricked by Agent Smythe and have been sent to Gentry Prison instead.

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As you finally reach the borough of Westminster in Fallout: London, you’ll find that life there is a little more pleasant than it is across the rest of the city. There are no ghastly mutations around each and every corner, nor are there any hostile factions trying to kill you. Though, there are plenty of posh toffs that’ll comment on how you stink. The folk at Westminster University, however, are quite nice.

When you first enter Westminster University, you’ll be warmly greeted by Professor Butterfield who needs your help cracking the mysterious code that has appeared on the university's terminals. Sounds like a job for the Wayfarer, so let’s crack on: here’s all the Westminster University trivia answers and how to decipher the Master Password in Fallout: London.

First things first, you can kick off this unnamed quest by approaching Westminster University in Fallout: London. As you do, you’ll be prompted to investigate the area, which means head on inside the building!

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This might surprise you, but Fallout: London - the big Fallout 4 mod - is proving pretty popular among Fallout modders who aren’t part of Team FOLON. Some of the bigger New Vegas fans among them have even started bringing that game’s faction rep and disguise systems to Blighty.

To be fair, some of them have already done the obvious things mod-wise, such as offering you a cure for your character’s crippling dog food addiction, and it looks like they’ll have to wait a little while to be able to enjoy Fallout: London’s cut Wild Card main quest arc, so let em have some fun in the meantime.

‘Faction Reputation and Disguise System’ by Invatorzen looks to be the most comprehensive attempt so far at allowing you to officially have it confirmed that you’re the most vilified individual in London, rather than just knowing so because every NPC won’t stop shooting at you.

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As you might be aware, massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London managed to recruit some pretty big names to go alongside its core voice acting pool.

Baldur's Gate 3 star Neil Newbon and former UK Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow - the latter having become a household name in Britain thanks to memes about him telling MPs to shut up by yelling ‘Order!’ - were arguably the most unexpected inclusions. So, how did their cameos come about?

Speaking to VG247 for an interview which also featured chat about how the mod’s release has gone and the cut quest line that’ll be arriving in a future update, Fallout: London project manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter revealed exactly that.

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As you progress with the main quest in Fallout: London and eventually wind up in the borough of Westminster, where things are slightly rosier and less ruined than the rest of London, your next goal will be accessing the Palace of Westminster. Of course, these folk aren’t going to let you walk right in, and you will need signatures from the leaders of all four London boroughs to be let inside.

This means that you have your work cut out for you completing busy work for factions across London if you hope to enter the Palace of Westminster. Or you can snoop around and forge all of their signatures instead. The choice is yours! To help you get inside the Palace, here’s our Hear Ye Hear Ye quest walkthrough, and how to get all four leader’s signatures in Fallout: London.

The Hear Ye, Hear Ye quest kicks off after the Lay of the Land quest, which sees you finding a Calling Card from Smythe that directs you to the Palace of Westminster. So, what are you waiting for? Head on over there and speak to the Parliament Guard by the gates.

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Fallout: London has its fair share of issues, and despite them, the mod — which applies a British overhaul to Fallout 4 — is brilliant fun. As you progress with the main quest and strive to find out who you are and what the hell is going on in post-apocalyptic London, you’ll eventually arrive in Westminster where there’s been another train crash.

Upon investigating the Crash Site, you’ll likely find that there’s something you’re missing; a Calling Card. This item, for many, isn’t appearing where it should and is preventing quest progression. Fortunately, it’s easily dealt with, so without further ado, here’s our guide to Fallout: London’s Lay of the Land quest, and how to investigate the Crash Site.

At the very beginning of the Lay of the Land quest in Fallout: London, you are tasked with gaining entry to the borough of Westminster. This in and of itself, fortunately, isn’t too difficult. Making your way into Parliament later, however, will require a lot more work.

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If you’ve run into a door you can’t get through while exploring the English capital in massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, as anyone who’s played more than a few hours almost certainly has, you may well have unknowingly stumbled across a location used by a cut main quest line. The arc in question is a Fallout New Vegas-style Wild Card option, and it’s set to be deployed properly in a future update.

Yep, stop thinking about crashes for a minute, there’s a British equivalent of Yes Man’s Strip-conquering adventure with The Courier just chilling behind the scenes, after Team FOLON was forced to abandon including it in the initial release.

Speaking to VG247 for an interview which you’ll be able to read more of here over the next little bit and also featured chat about the modders’ current plans to rectify its pesky release bugs, Fallout: London project manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter revealed some details about this questline, and why the team wasn’t able to include it in the initial release.

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Massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has had a launch filled with plenty of technical teething issues that have impacted a lot of players’ attempts to delve right into Ol’Blighty right out of the gate.

While there have been some steps you can take to make the mod crash less often, Team FOLON is planning on making sure that process is a lot more convenient for those who might not be used to trawling Nexus Mods or messing around with files.

As part of a recent interview with VG247, which you’ll be able to read more of here over the next little bit, Fallout: London project manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter outlined what things have been like for the team since release, and the plans it has to rectify the mod’s technical hiccups.

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Fallout: London is a wasteland; one that's full of danger and precarious situations. But as you pop out into post-apocalyptic London, you arrive with a bang after your train crashes off its rails somewhere near Greenwich. The crash takes its toll, of course, leaving you with the Railway Spine and Lab Rat afflictions to cure.

Lab Rat is an affliction you won’t be able to cure until approximately six or seven hours into your playthrough. Even longer if you’re exploring off the beaten path and taking on side quests, so if you’re hoping to get patched up as soon as possible, you’ve come to the right place. No, I’m not a doctor, but this guide does explain how to cure Lab Rat in Fallout: London.

While curing Railway Spine is easily done by following the Vagabonds at the very beginning of Fallout; London, curing yourself of Lab Rat requires a touch more work.

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In your irradiated adventure across Fallout: London you meet an array of wacky characters and, as you’d be right to expect from any massive RPG, you can recruit a few of them to become your companions. After all, being a lone wanderer can be hard work, so having some company isn’t a bad idea.

All companions come with their own pros and cons, too, and if you spend enough time developing relationships with them, you might even find yourself unlocking some unique — and very useful — Perks. So without further ado, here’s all companions in Fallout: London and how to get them.

There are a handful of companions for you to meet in Fallout: London, and all of them have their own unique personalities and benefits. The characters you can recruit so far are as follows:

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As you explore the British wasteland of Fallout: London, you’ll meet plenty of characters to love and loathe. Some of the folk you run into can tag along as your companions too, if you play your cards right, and having a companion is a pretty good idea. They can carry your stuff and take aggro for you, but of course, some of them can be liabilities.

One strong fella, Mad Jack, is a pretty good companion to choose. The boxing champion is an absolute unit and a brilliant brawler who can be helpful in combat, and getting him on your side isn’t too difficult, either. Here’s how to recruit Mad Jack as a companion in Fallout: London.

Mad Jack is found in the basement of a pub called The Pilgrim in Fallout: London. This pub is on a street corner just north of Trafalgar, and given its lack of signposts and the likes, it can be very easy to miss.

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One of the most impressive things about Fallout: London is just how much stuff there is to collect. Before you’ve been exploring long, your pockets are sure to be full to bursting with junk for crafting and shiny equipment.

However, unlike the base game of Fallout 4, Settlement locations in Fallout: London are few and far between and there’s nowhere that’s convenient to store your items.

Most of the Settlements in Fallout: London require difficult combat or completing a quest to acquire. But there is one that I’ve found which you can cheese almost immediately when you start the game.

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In the time I've spent with it so far one of my favourite things about massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London are its fun little parodies and jokes about iconic UK brands and staples. However, there's one parody company you'll find throughout post-apocalyptic England that I'd argue doesn't feel like it fits in as well as others, and I'm clearly not alone, as there's already a mod to swap it out.

If you've yet to play much of London, or are holding out until the fixes for the technical issues that've plagued a lot of people's time with it since release have been deployed, it's full of the exact kinds of parodies of real-world products and things that we've come to expect from Fallout. This time, it's just that we're getting Ion Brew in place of Irn Bru, rather than Nuka Cola in place of the Coca variety.

While I love that, and the likes of Edward Storage - that's Team FOLON's version of iconic British trucking company Eddie Stobart, whose uniquely named lorries I have fond memories of getting way too jazzed up about seeing during family roadtrips as a child (this isn't my real backstory, I was actually raised by a Yeti in the mountains of Tibet) - there's one parody brand in the mod which feels a bit out of place.

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As you frolic around Fallout: London, seeking out unusual call boxes, dolls, and plenty of strange folk, you can also encounter multiple companions to come on your journey with you. One such companion who doesn’t shut up is Arthur Mountbatten, a smartly-dressed ghoul that has found himself in a bizarre predicament.

If you help Mountbatten with said predicament, though, he’s more than happy to help you with exploring post-apocalyptic London. He’s a talkative fella who comes with a revolver, making him alright in combat. Without further ado, here’s how to recruit Arthur Mountbatten as a companion in Fallout: London.

Recruiting Arthur Mountbatten as a companion in Fallout: London is relatively easy, once you know where to look. This ghoul is found dangling from a tree in Hackney after some folk were unwilling to pay their taxes, which is fair enough.

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Fallout: London has a few companions for you to meet that you certainly won’t forget in a hurry. One that you can find a few hours into the game is Keira. Trapped in the Bank of England’s Vault with some brainless Ghouls for company, Keira is more than happy to invite herself along on our adventure once we rescue her.

Describing herself as a prolific treasure hunter, you’ll want to keep her around if finding and hoarding loot is your thing, though, she doesn’t half have some interesting conspiracy theories to tell you about first. Without further ado, here’s how to recruit Keira as a companion in Fallout: London.

Keira can be recruited as a companion during the Heaven Slayer quest in Fallout: London, which has you working with the Tommies to clear out more hooligans from the Bank of England before venturing over to Islington.

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As you make your way through the Rads and rubble of post-apocalyptic London, it isn’t too long before you wind up at the Bank of England in Fallout: London. A key location during the Heaven Slayer quest and running rampant with hooligans, it becomes your job to show these folk who is boss while looting gold bars and key cards.

To fully explore the Bank of England, and even end up with a brand new companion, you will need to track down three different keys and a key card in the building. To help you do just that, here’s where to find all Bank of England keys in Fallout: London.

The Bank of England has three different keys that you need to find if you wish to complete the Heaven Slayer quest and recruit Keira as a companion. Below, we explain how to find all three in order so that you can clear the place of Hooligans and continue your Fallout: London adventure.

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Amazon's Fallout TV show has rightly earned about nine million plaudits since it came out, and the latest comes from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During a call outlining the company's latest batch of financial numbers, we've learned the extent to which the show boosted the player counts of Fallout titles on Game Pass.

Touching on the show, which recently recieved a bunch of Emmy nominations and was renewed for a second season faster than you can bring up VATS, Nadella revealed (thanks, IGN) that "hours played on Game Pass for the Fallout franchise increased nearly 5x quarter-over-quarter" following the show's arrival.

While we already knew that Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell running around California had done wonders for the amounts of folks delving back into Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout New Vegas, and their predecessors, Microsoft hadn't previously outlined the effect it'd had on Game Pass specifically.

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Following its release, those delving into massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London have been faced with a number of teething issues. The good news is that the modders are very much on the case and have been busy prepping fixes, though it's taken an outside modder to help those whose characters can't stop munching on pet food.

Since London came out last week, following an unavoidable delay caused by Fallout 4's next-gen update, it's been earning lots of thumbs up (we've enjoyed what we've played so far), but folks have been running into lots of crashes and other bugs.

While there are some steps you can take to make the mod crash less often, Team FOLON knows this isn't ideal and has put out a statement outlining its plans to deal with these teething issues beyond the kind of helpful triage that's been going on in Fallout: London's Discord server.

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As you stumble out of a secret underground bunker at the start of Fallout: London, it doesn’t seem like things can get any worse. But as your first tube ride ends very, very abruptly in a horrifying crash, you’re left debilitated with the “Railway Spine” affliction.

Railway Spine isn’t something bedrest and half a margarita pizza can fix though, as you’ll need specialist medical attention to see to the injury.

It’s very easy to miss an early character who can sort it out for you, especially if you decide to make your own way in the city without tagging along with the first faction you meet.

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Fallout: London is a full DLC-sized mod, packed with loot to discover and quests to complete. Some of the best parts in official Bethesda RPGs always come from the side quests and Fallout: London is no different, with tons of interesting characters - each with their own backstory - waiting to meet the Lab Rat Wanderer around every corner.

One early example of this is the Catching Up quest, where one of the old-timers in the Vagabonds gang - Sabertooth Syd - asks for a special favour from the wanderer: help with finally learning how to read.

When the Wanderer accepts, Syd is over the moon, but has another request too. If it’s not too much trouble, can the Wanderer look out for their favourite childhood book, the Dove’s Dilemma?

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As you step foot in post-apocalyptic London and explore all that Fallout: London has to offer, one thing you certainly do not want to neglect are Perks. These function as additional Skills for your character to unlock, improving their capabilities in combat, chem-consuming, conversation, and much more.

The Perks menu is essentially your Skill Tree in Fallout: London, allowing you to spend Perk Points on improvements to your build. Though, there are some Perks you’ll pick up out and about in the wild, too. To help you figure out which Perks are best for you, here’s all Fallout: London Perks, what they do, and how to unlock them.

Perks in Fallout: London are a bit different to Traits. Think of Traits as something innate to your character that they possess from the very beginning of their adventure, while Perks are something that they’ll pick up along the way depending on their in-game actions and where they choose to spend their Perk Points.

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As you wake up in a strange laboratory in Fallout: London, being gawked at by two goggled scientists, you are presented with the option to select some starting Traits for your character. This is where your character’s journey begins and you can start morphing them into an agile brawler, careful assassin, or whatever else your headcanon conjures up.

Of the 12 starting Traits available, which all offer some kind of con and pro each, you can select two to start your journey with. While some Traits are arguably better than others, it can be a pretty tough decision overall. After all, you’re going to be stuck with these Traits throughout your playthrough! To help you out, here’s the best Fallout: London Traits to choose.

In the below table, we have listed every single Fallout: London Trait that is available at the beginning of the game for you to choose from, and what it provides once chosen.

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Archie is one of multiple companions you can recruit and befriend in Fallout: London, and while he can be quite amusing, you’re likely better off with any companion other than this young boy. He does a whole lot of flailing around and screaming, and frankly, the novelty wears off quite quickly. He’s a good lockpick, though!

Alas, Churchill the dog is another early companion you can grab, but Archie can be good company across post-apocalyptic London until you find someone else to follow you around. Without further ado, here’s how to get Archie as a companion in Fallout: London.

Recruiting Archie as a companion is tied directly to the Land of the Seraph quest in Fallout: London. For me, this became available after paying a visit to the Thamesfolk and helping the Ferryman during the Charybdis quest.

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Fallout: London, a fan-made mod for Fallout 4 that completely overhauls the game, is a huge feat. Of course, with any large project like this, there are going to be issues that the modders will slowly iron out over time, but there’s no denying the achievement that FOLON is.

As you escape from being a test subject and beeline for your exit into the city of London, you will soon need a Torch to help you navigate how dark this laboratory soon gets, and fortunately, one is handed to you! How do you use a Torch in Fallout: London, though?

If your foray into post-apocalyptic London is your first time launching Fallout 4, you will find that some tutorial steps aren’t present, such as how to turn your Torch on once you get it. Or, perhaps it’s just been a while and you need a refresher when getting to grips with Fallout: London!

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The Commonwealth had plenty of companions for you to love and loathe, so it comes as no surprise that the gargantuan mod, Fallout: London, offers some brand-new companions for you to befriend or dismiss. One such companion who you can adopt early on is Churchill the dog, who can be incredibly helpful for finding loot and sneaking past enemies.

He gets in the way sometimes, I’ll admit, but this adorable English bulldog is a companion you should spend some time with sooner or later. To help you out with doing just that, here’s how to adopt Churchill the dog in Fallout: London.

Churchill is one of the earliest companions you can run into in Fallout: London, found scrapping with some stray dogs outside of the Prilladog Food Factory shown below.

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England’s capital has always been a hotbed of culture, so it’s no surprise that Fallout: London’s nuclear fire only seems to have fanned the flames, with multiple factions based on classic British fashion, history and military units all stalking the streets of the Big Smoke.

While it doesn’t seem like the water quality in the Thames has changed much, there are so many new discoveries to make in Fallout: London, where almost every area and alleyway is densely packed with points of interest.

However, Fallout: London is much tougher than the base game, so, to save you some time scouring the dangerous streets of each borough, here’s a run-down of the different factions in Fallout: London and where to find them!

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Fallout: London is brilliant, representing an authentic slice of post-apocalyptic action made by a dedicated team of talented developers.

But, without the resources and budget of a mainstream studio, bugs and technical difficulties were always a possibility.

So, once they’ve gone through the confusing process of how to install Fallout: London on Steam, many players are reporting consistent and ever-increasing numbers of crashes as they try to play the game.

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Whether you've been looking forward to playing Fallout: London for ages, or just heard about it recently, the good news is that it's finally time to do just that. However, unlike with mainstream releases, there's a bit more of a process involved in getting started this time around - especially if you're playing through Steam. But, if you're wondering how to install Fallout: London and get it set up so that you can play, you're in the right place.

If you're completely up to speed with Fallout: London, it's what's called a "full conversion mod" for Fallout 4 set in a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, crammed full of new factions to meet and quests to complete.

It also stars Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon and even a former Speaker of the UK's House of Commons, as well as being an unadulterated new slice of Fallout. What else could you want? So, here's what you need to do to head on down to ol' Blighty in Fallout: London.

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A few months ago, when Bethesda suddenly announced that the Fallout 4 next-gen update a lot of players had been waiting for would finally be arriving on April 25, there was one question instantly on a lot of people's lips - what does this mean for Fallout: London.

The answer ended up being what the mod's project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter, has since acknowledged to be "a bit of a nightmare in terms of trying to release". There was another lengthy delay, this time without a concrete release date at the end of it, as the team worked to try and quickly update the mod to work with next-gen Fallout 4, before having to switch course to providing prospective players with a means to downgrade their copies of Fallout 4 - a change with unavoidable consequences for the launch.

Though, there has been at least one silver lining that's come in the midst of all those headaches - the emergence of PC storefront GOG.com as a willing host for the massive mod, which found itself unable to release in the traditional fashions mods usually do, simply as a result of its sheer size.

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Those of you eagerly awaiting Fallout season 2 will probably be happy to hear that it's apparently running "ahead of schedule."

Earlier this week, this year's Emmy nominations were revealed, where Fallout managed to rack up a very impressive 16 of them. So, it wouldn't be all that surprising if this reminded you of how good the show is, and left you wanting more again. Unfortunately, like all good things, you must wait for season 2 to come to you - it has been confirmed at the very least, but it was generally assumed that it will take a while to be released. Interestingly, though, in a recent interview with Variety, Amazon's head of TV Vernon Sanders and Amazon MGM Studios chief Jennifer Salke spoke of the show, where it was shared that the second season was progressing very well.

"I think we’re ahead of schedule, in terms of being able to get Season 2 back," Sanders said during the interview. "We don’t have an exact launch date yet, but we’ve already gotten scripts in hand, and I think the fans of Season 1 will really love where we’re going for Season 2." That was in response to a question as to whether or not the show will be an anthology, with a new set of characters for season 2, but Salke explained "We are committed to our journey with our beloved characters. Such a great Season 2 coming.

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It's a big day for the labour movement in the games industry, as 241 Bethesda staffers have formed a union.

Yesterday evening, Bethesda Game Studios workers announced it had formed a union under the Communication Workers of America (CWA), making it the first studio to fully do so since being acquired by Microsoft. Bethesda Montreal filed for unionisation last month, and QA workers at Zenimax, Bethesda's parent company, did the same in 2023, but with the Dallas, Rockville, and Austin sites forming this union, the entirety of US-based Bethesda studios have now unionised. It's also the first "wall-to-wall" union at a Microsoft video game studio, as of the 241 workers that have unionised, there are members "including artists, engineers, programmers and designers have either signed a union authorization card or indicated that they wanted union representation."

In a statement, senior system designer and member of the CWA Mandi Parker said, "We are so excited to announce our union at Bethesda Game Studio and join the movement sweeping across the video game industry. It is clear that every worker can benefit from bringing democracy into the workplace and securing a protected voice on the job. We’re thrilled to get down to brass tacks and win a fair contract, proving that our unity is a source of real power to positively shape our working conditions, our lives, and the company as a whole."

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Massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London's developers have confirmed that their creation is back in their hands and is "no longer down to GOG", but are urging prospective players not to get too excited quite yet.

Team FOLON had previously revealed that the mod had been sent off to the PC storefront, which is distributing it, for some final QA testing. GOG also recently confirmed to us that the mod won't work with Epic Games store-bought copies of Fallout 4 at launch.

Now, the team has confirmed via Fallout: London's Discord server that the mod is back in its hands, but has warned that this doesn't mean fans should get overly hyped up about the release being directly imminent quite yet, as there are still some things that'll need sorting before that happens.

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The project lead of massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has said that the reason its developers haven't revealed its latest release date is due to them having signed non-disclosure agreements.

This explanation follows the team revealing last month that it had locked in a new internal release date for the mod, after a delay neccessitated by the arrival of Fallout 4's next-gen update forced it to abandon its planned release date of April 23. Though, this time around, unlike the previous ones the modders had pencilled in for their creation, the exact date of the intended release wasn't made public.

Now, in an interview with The Metro, Fallout: London project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has provided more information on the reason for this change in the handling of release dates for the mod as the team's navigated "a bit of a nightmare in terms of trying to release" due to the next-gen update's arrival.

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This is not a drill. UK political memes look set to inflitrate the Fallout universe via Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. Having already confirmed some pretty huge names voice acting-wise, the mod's Project Lead now looks to be suggesting a former MP known for yelling things is also on that list.

Back in February, we learned that the mod's cast includes Neil Newbon - the voice of Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion - and A Plague Tale: Requiem’s Anna Demetriou, with their names slotting in alongside the likes of the already announced Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker. Yes, that's the sixth and seventh doctors from Doctor Who.

Now, over on the mod's Discord server, project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter looks to have revealed perhaps the weirdest addition to a mod's cast in the history of, well, modding via a "Little Amusing Update".

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A spokesperson for GOG.com, the PC storefront which is set to distribute massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, has confirmed to VG247 that it's currently not in line to be playable via Epic Games store-bought copies of the game at launch.

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, the mod has been left in a bit of a purgatory.

Following the recent announcement that the version of the mod now in line to be used for the initial release will require players to downgrade their copies of Fallout 4 to an iteration prior to the next-gen update, GOG has told VG247 that this switch will, at least in the short term, unfortunately have an effect on plans to try and offer the mod to PC players regardless of where they've bought the game.

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Fallout: London's project lead has confirmed that the massive mod will need to downgrade your copy of Fallout 4 to a version from before the next-gen updates that dropped earlier this year in order for you to be able to play it. The reason cited is that the next-gen version of Bethesda's RPG "isn't stable enough".

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, the mod has been left in what's felt like a bit of a purgatory.

However, at the weekend, the team behind Fallout: London released a statement revealing that the mod is now undergoing QA testing by GOG.com, the storefront that'll be disrtibuting it, and is therefore just "waiting for the final green light". One detail mentioned in this statement is that the mod not only has its own installer, but also a downgrader, and project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has now revealed that the latter certainly isn't just being chucked in there as a cool optional inclusion, as you might have assumed.

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Those of you excited for Fallout: London better get yourselves ready, as the mod's devs have shared a promising update.

It's been a little bit of a tough year for the team behind Fallout: London, as the massive mod was supposed to be released back in April, but unfortunately for them Bethesda surprise announced Fallout 4's long awaited next-gen update only two weeks before the mod's release date. The mod team responded a few days after Bethesda's announcement confirming the next-gen update meant the mod would have to be delayed (updates frequently break mods, especially ones as big as a next-gen update, which also featured changes for the PC release). Last month the devs locked in a new release date, though that's yet to be shared - though they have now teased its imminent arrival.

Via the Fallout: London Twitter account, an update shared to the mod's Discord explained: "There has been a lot of speculation regarding our upcoming release, and we wanted to open up and clear the air for our core supporters. The bottom line is that we've sent several builds over to GOG for QA testing and are waiting for the final green light. Once they've completed the process of double-checking that Fallout: London and its installer work on all supported machines, we should be good to go. (Yes, we have our own installer, and downgrader too!)

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If you're among the many Fallout fans still eagerly awaiting Fallout: London's arrival now that we know the team's locked in a new release date, a new Fallout 4 mod might just be the perfect thing to help pass the time. After all, who doesn't fancy a new island to explore?

While it's usually the bigger projects that grab the headlines, especially when we get big progress updates or learn that things have hit an unexpected snag, Fallout 4's modding community puts out slightly smaller scale stuff that's well worth checking out on the regular. Sometimes a huge addition isn't feasible, but a cool quest or well-made new location can be just as much fun.

Enter 'Boon Island', the first part of a new series of mods from Tenhats and Shreddah4 dubbed "Isles Of New England". As you might imagine given that title, the pair are adding a bunch of new islands - inspired by real life locations in a similar fashion to the base game's Far Harbor - to Fallout 4, with the first one being Maine's Boon Island.

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UPDATE (25/06/24, 11:20 AM BST): We reached out to Neeher to get a bit more of a picture of how they felt about this bizarre link between their mod and CoD, they told us the following: "It was a funny moment where I was like... wait a minute! Task Force 141 of course being a classic CoD military squad thing, and Xander's Aid from several years ago sharing the same number. Now, of course at the time when I made that mod I didn't have any texturing skills. So I just took the Vault 114 texture and swapped the 4 and 1 to make up 141. That's really as deep as it goes. [It] got a good laugh out of me, thinking that through some twisted mental gymnastics I could imagine that Vault 141 is a real lore vault."

Following the Fallout TV Show, we've already seen the series captialise on the swell in mainstream attention via a Fortnite collab, and now its been confirm that Call of Duty is getting one of those too on June 20. Interstingly, the fun little promotion also features a nod of sorts to one of Fallout 4's most popular quest mods.

Yup, you heard it here first, Activision is just like us fr, clearly having spent hours on the Nexus trying to install about five million different things that make The Commonwealth more interesting, only to inevitably end up with some undiagnosable load order conflict. Ok, it's definitely not, but this is still a pretty neat coincidence.

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The recent release of a creation club for Starfield - delivering content from Bethesda and modders for purchasable credits as the studio's previously done with Skyrim and Fallout 4 - drew a lot of backlash from players. Bethesda's Todd Howard has now addressed the controversy and indicated that the studio could be looking at making some changes to the initiative going forwards.

If you're out of the loop, the big sticking point with this iteration of Bethesda's ever-polarising attempts to intergrate some form of add-on system that allows for 'paid mods' was the pricing, especially when it came to one Trackers Alliance quest. With that second quest based around the faction being behind the paywall, while the first Trackers Alliance mission was given out for free, some players were annoyed that it looked like they'd be paying a lot more for this and upcoming Trackers Alliance content than they might otherwise do if it was all released as one DLC pack.

In an interview with YouTuber MrMattyPlays, game director Todd Howard was asked about this controversy, and responded by suggesting the studio will be looking into potentially revising how it proces and packages creation club content in light of the backlash.

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The Fallout community is good at coming together to create cool things, with the least of these being a huge Fallout 4 mod built in just one weekend to help raise money for a charity drive by legendary Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield voice actor Wes Johnson - who also stars in it.

If you're out of the loop, for the past couple of years now a group of high-profile Fallout and Elder Scrolls modders have been coming together to build a big mod with features voted on by fans over the course of a single weekend - game jam style. It's just one of the many things organised by Johnson and charity initiative Fallout For Hope to help raise money for the Alzheimer's Association during a yearly drive called Wes Johnson's Voiceapalooza.

This year, the mod that was created - by a crew including the team behind the massive Fallout 4 Sim Settlements mod, America Rising creator Thomas 'Otellino' Mitchell, and Emmi 'Elianora' Junkkari - is 'Shady Motives'.

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Fallout: London's developers have locked in a new release date for the game-sized mod, and it'll seemigly be coming up very soon. Yup, while the exact date's been settled, the team has decided not to fully reveal it quite yet, keeping us all on our toes.

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, the mod has been left in what's felt like a bit of a purgatory. But no longer!

Yesterday afternoon, Team FOLON got everyone going by simply tweeting "We have a new date. Stay safe and remember. Mind the gap." Naturally, that's incited plenty of interest from the folks who've been eagerly waiting the mod's arrival with bated breath, and project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has provided some additional info on where the team's at via the Fallout: London Discord server.

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Sure, the base version of Helldivers 2 has plenty of cool tech and gear to strap yourself up with before you head into battle or deploy via stratagems. Though, I doubt any soldier of Super Earth would turn down a suit of the Fallout series' T-60 power armour, which is where a new mod comes in.

In case you're wondering, this is another fan-made addition to Arrowhead's FPS that comes courtesy of a new tool developed by the team behind the mod pack that can be used to transform the game into a Star Wars shooter. What they've developed to make texture editing in the game easier has been out less that a week, and had already allowed modders to chuck a bunch of gear from other games into Helldivers.

Having already swapped Lethal Company's iconic employee into the game, modder Graelyth's next port of call has been 'Fallout T-60 Power Armor', which does exactly what you'd expect. Gone is a variant of the B-01 tactical armor set and helmet, with the T-60 suit recently added to Fortnite as a skin having been drafted in to take their places.

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It's been a big few months for Fallout, mainly thanks to that little TV show you might have heard about, but also some updates to Fallout 4 that've, er, garnered a pretty mixed reaction. Now, though, the series has really made it into the mainstream - starting today, some stuff from it's in Fortnite.

Yup, stop worrying about your VATS not working like it should, it's time to shake your gyatt by hitting the default dance and skibidi toilet with high level rizz into the litness, my dudes. I'm 25, and life already scares me.

We'd already gotten a few sneak peeks at the T-60 power armour - very much the in-vogue power armour since Fallout 4 dropped - which is being added to Fortnite as part of Chapter 5 Season 3. Dubbed Wrecked, this season's also bringing bottles of Nuka Cola to the game, which you can chug to restore ypur health and a bit of shield.

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They were supposed to keep people safe from the horrors of nuclear war and the ensuing, er, fallout, but Vault Tec had other plans.

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After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, Fallout: London has been left in what's felt like a bit of a purgatory. Behind the scenes, however, the modders have been working very hard to get it ready to release in a form that'll work with these latest changes to Fallout 4. Thankfully, it sounds like Bethesda's latest tweaks won't cause too much of a hold-up.

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. We've been getting regular updates from the team behind it over the past couple of years, and now things are slotting in place to finally let us take to the streets of London, whenever those streets are deemed 100% ready.

Speaking to TheGamer on the same day the second part to Fallout 4's next-gen update dropped, Fallout: London project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter seemed to outline that he didn't think it'd pose too much of a hurdle for the mod - at least in comparision to the much heftier first part of the update.

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The next-gen update to Fallout 4, and its less heralded sequel , have proven a bit annoying for a lot of PC players who aren't too bothered about the new additions they bring. Why? Well, because they've messed with a lot of important mods, as game updates tend to do. But it's ok, folks who've chosen to stop their copy updating, here's a mod that'll stop you feeling like you're missing out on one of the update's actually good things - the Piggy Bank Fat Man.

Yup, forget about those poor folks who're wondering when a fix might drop for their VATS issues. The real people who're hard done by here are those of us who'd had to forego some fun weapons because we don't want to patiently wait for things to be updated.

Enter 'Blahaj Tactical Support', a mod from Herby247 that gives you a Fat Man which fires explosive versions of the cuddly IKEA (other furniture shops are available) shark named Blahaj - which has become an iconic image of LGBTQ+ positivity in recent years. This isn't the first time the shark has popped up in Fallout 4 either, with Herby247 having also recently made an "Emotional Support" backpack version and fellow modder Elianora having included it as a workshop item in a trans solidarity-themed pride themed mod last year.

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Warning: Spoilers for Amazon's Fallout TV Show lie ahead.

Ok, so, you remember that bit in the Fallout TV Show when Norm finally discovers the truth behind the experiment that's been going on in his and Lucy's home vault? More specifially, do you remember a certain little funny robot that's by his side when he learns exactly what's being going down. Well, a modder's now working on bringing that Roomba Robobrain to Fallout 4, but sadly not as the world's most adorable Dogmeat subsitute.

Yup, stop crying because Fallout 4's next-gen updates have - probably - messed up your load order, it's time to think about downloading something kinda bizarre that you'll inevitably forget about, then encounter midway through a modded playthrough and think 'oh, when did I install that?'. Hey, at least this time it's not pictures of Walton Goggins' face that'll make you feel things downstairs.

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The weird second part of Fallout 4's next-gen update, which we first learned about last week, arrived yesterday, bringing with it a host of fixes mainly aimed at getting the game to run and look a bit better. It's also fixed one of the funniest issues folks had reported experiencing with the first update, though other problems look to persist.

If you're just catching up on things, a lot of the big complants folks had about Fallout 4's next-gen update have involved problems that've since been resolved or the effect it's had on mods. Though, there were some other pesky issues highlighted around its release, a couple of which look to still be a thing.

First, the good news. Players are reporting that the fun new makeshift weapons featured in the quest 'When Pigs Fly' are no longer being replaced by the big red signs that usually signify a texture issue of some kind - something some folks had reported experiencing when delving into the next-gen update for the first time. This includes the new Piggy Bank Fat Man and Piggy Bank mines - which are very fun, if a bit OP to become regular fixtures in everyone's arsenal.

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Ever since Bethesda took a certain little-known isometric RPG for neckbeards and turned it into a huge mainstream phenomenon (thank you Bethesda), the Fallout brand has done Big Business. And so it has been roped into numerous cross-promotional schemes over the years, lending its iconic branding to all sorts of pointless adornments you can get for other games.

And also a pretty nifty Minecraft world, packed full of homages to key locations from the series, like a sort of blocky Fallout theme park. Hey, until they build Megaton at Universal Studios, that’s probably the closest you’ll get to such a thing. You’ll have to bring your own devilled eggs.

Check the video above for a nifty rundown of forgotten brand crossovers featuring Vault Boy, Codsworth, and Red Rocket showing up in other games, thanks to friend of VG247 Ian Higton off of Eurogamer!

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History repeated itself when Fallout 4's next-gen update arrived broken, but Bethesda has promised an update is coming next week.

It must be written in a contract somewhere that anything Bethesda does with Fallout 4, it has to be buggy as all hell, because that's the only reason I can imagine the game's next-gen update released in the state it did. Maybe it's just tradition too, but it is a bit of a pain nonetheless, so much so that some of Fallout 4's most popular mods recently were just ones that got rid of the update. Thankfully, though, it seems like Bethesda is working on some fixes for the update. As Bethesda shared in a post from its official Twitter account, "On Monday, May 13 we will be updating Fallout 4 on all platforms. This update will include new options for graphics and performance settings as well as further fixes and improvements. Thanks for your continued feedback and support!"

Whether that'll outright fix all of the update's problems, we'll obviously have to wait until the patch drops tomorrow to find out, but it's something at the very least. In the meantime, you're probably better off playing the game without the next-gen update, if only so that you can comfortably play the game with your favourite mods.

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Dogmeat. The name conjures up images of a loyal canine companion, braving the radioactive wastes alongside you in the Fallout franchise. And for good reason - Dogmeat is arguably the most beloved companion in any Bethesda game, earning the adoration of players, designers, and critics alike (except for one, but we won’t put them on blast).

This enduring affection goes beyond mere gameplay mechanics. It taps into something primal, a universal love for dogs that transcends the boundaries of reality and digital worlds. After all, in the real world, dogs hold a special place in our hearts. According to a 2022 report from the American Veterinary Medical Association, at least one dog resided in 44.5% of households in the US – that's over 65 million homes with a furry friend. Dogs provide companionship, unconditional love, and a sense of security. They're our confidants, cheerleaders, and, sometimes, even furry therapists.

The Fallout universe is a harsh and unforgiving place. It's no wonder players crave a beacon of loyalty and affection. Dogmeat fills that void as a constant reminder of the simple joys and unwavering companionship that can exist even in the face of nuclear apocalypse.

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“I remember the first three days, everything was so perfect,” Fallout: Deadweight writer and director Nigel Kim tells me. “Everything we got was so perfect that I was having the most fun of my entire life just being there on that set.”

“The last day we kind of hit some production snags, and in the very last 30 minutes of the project,” he continues, “we were rushing, we were trying to get the shot with the stimpak, and it breaks.”

“It drops and shatters into a million pieces in front of me, and, this project, I've been trying to make this happen for like three years now. So, it was just years worth of time and attention and money. Then when this prop broke, it literally shattered my brain for like a split second, where I think I dropped to the ground and my mind was, like, blank for a second. Then Caine - my executive producer - and Eric literally pull me up, throw me in front of a monitor and say, ‘Glue it back together, roll it!’. They kind of slapped me out of my little funk there for a second.”

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While the likes of Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 are all well and good, after enjoying Amazon's Fallout TV show, a lot of us have been left craving a fresh Fallout experience - or even a new remake - to sink our teeth into.

To its credit, while Fallout 4's next-gen update has fallen a bit flat, Bethesda does at least seem to be aware of the desire for it to do a bit more with the series. Though, until it can find a way to up its output, mods will continue to provide plenty of Fallout stuff to look forward to in between entries - with one interesting project looking set to release its first demo this summer.

Fallout: Vault 13 is, as you might have gleaned from the name, a modding project dedicated to remaking the very first Fallout game using Fallout 4's engine - seemigly in a pretty similar vein to the likes of Fallout 4 New Vegas (no prizes for guessing what that one's all about either). Following the release of a Shady Sands showcase video back in 2022, the project's team has been working on a playable demo, and has just provided a fresh update on it.

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Have you been left a bit bummed out that, after having your appetite for the series renewed by Amazon's Fallout TV show, the most recent Fallout games on offer are Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, both of which are getting fairly long in the tooth, even if they are still getting fresh updates? Well, here's what could be a bit of good news - Todd Howard says Bethesda's looking into upping its output, if it can do so in a manner it's a fan of.

Yup, while we have had Fallout 4's rather, er, troubled next-gen update to dig into, and Appalachia to rediscover, the show's highlighted the need for more regular entries. Especially given that The Elder Scrolls 6 is next up on the docket and still seems years away at this point.

Speaking to Kinda Funny Games for an interview that also saw him confirm when Starfield's first expansion will be dropping, Todd Howard also touched on where the studio's at in terms of making new things.

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Amazon's Fallout series has quickly proven popular as in just over two weeks, it's already become the streaming service's second-most-watched show.

I could probably tell you how popular the Fallout show has been just from looking at my timeline, but I think the confirmation of a season two, alongside just how many people are playing Fallout 4 again, is more concrete as evidence. More definitive than that, though, is the fact that according to Amazon, the Fallout series has become Prime Video's second-most-watched show in its first 16 days of release (via THR). It also said that 65 million viewers globally have watched at least some of the show since it was released, with the only series to have performed being The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, but there's no surprise there really, is there? Apparently most of the viewership came from outside the US, with 60% of Fallout's audience coming from global territories, quite the funny thing given its whole 50s Americana vibes.

More than anything though, this proves that Bethesda probably should have had something Fallout lined up on the games front - those Steam sales surely helped bring in quite a few sales (Fallout 4 sales were up 7500% in Europe), but even a spin-off would have gone down massively with the release of the show. A recent report from The Xbox Two podcast's Jez Corden claimed that Xbox wants the next Fallout game to release faster, though with The Elder Scrolls 6 up next, and Bethesda only working on one game at a time, some other plans might need to be drawn up. Though, at this point it might be too little too late to capitalise on the show's hype.

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Fallout 4's next-gen update arrived late last week, and uh, a lot of folks weren't too impressed. While a lot of the initial backlash was due to technical issues or bugs, a lot of those on PC who've given the update a go now seem to be looking for ways to revert their game back to its pre-update state. Enter a couple of works that've quickly shot to the top of the game's Nexus Mods page.

If you're just catching up on things, while a lot of the big complants folks have had about Fallout 4's next-gen update have involved problems that've either since been resolved or hopefully should be soon - such as PlayStation Plus users temporarily being unable to upgrade PS4 versions to PS5 without being charged. Meanwhile, on PC - as game updates often do - it's rendered a lot of key Fallout 4 mods unable to be used until they too have been updated, earning plenty of ire from those in the midst of modded playthroughs who hadn't made plans to stop their game from updating.

So, this is how we've ended up with two mods specifically aimed at helping people who've installed the update get back to playing pre next-gen Fallout 4 rocketing right to the top of Nexus Mods' most downloaded Fallout 4 mods for the past week, despite only having arrived after the update did.

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Fallout 4’s full world map has more than 200 main map markers to unlock stretching across the state of Massachusetts.

Fallout 4 takes place in The Commonwealth, an irradiated wasteland for you to explore encompassing the ruins of the cities Boston and Cambridge, as well as the town of Lexington and the world-famous witching hub of Salem.

But now, in this once cosy corner of New England, instead of black cats and tricorn hats you’re more likely to need V.A.T.S. to fend off some mole rats.

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Well, Fallout 4's next-gen update arrived yesterday, as expected, though its deployment has been far from issue-free. The most noteworthy of these was a problem which has led to those who previously acquired the game via PlayStation Plus being unable to upgrade it to the PS5 version for free. Bethesda's said that it's working on rectifying this, with players being left to twiddle their thumbs in the interim.

If you're just catching up on things, Fallout 4's next-gen update brings the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, as well as including some graphical tweaks and bug fixes that vary from platform to platform. There's also a fair amount of free Creation Club content bundled in with it.

Sadly, when PlayStation players who'd previously acquired their PS4 version of the game via PlayStation Plus attempted to upgrade it to the new PS5 version for free - as they'd been told they'd be able to - they were instead only greeted with the option buy the PS5 version seperately. Naturally, this caused some backlash, especially given that the process seemed to be working as intended for those upgrading in similar fashion on Xbox.

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Ok, so Fallout 4’s next-gen update finally drops this week, and, obviously, it’s not remotely close to being Fallout 5.

If you’ve been among the droves of folks returning to everything from Fallout 76 to New Vegas after enjoying Amazon’s Fallout TV show, you don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a little while since we’ve had a new Fallout game. Bethesda’s been busy with Starfield and is now moving on to The Elder Scrolls 6, but, at some point - hopefully before 2077 - Fallout 5 should be a thing.

Though, while it’s still a weird little gleam in the eye of Todd Howard - and the rest of the team at Bethesda that brings these things to life - the cool thing is that we legions of Fallout fans can all merrily sit around and think about what we might do if we were in charge of putting the next game in the series together. So, that’s exactly what I’ve recently asked a number of members of the Fallout community to do.

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If you've been hopping back into the Fallout games recently - or trying them for the first time - you're probably pretty keen to give Fallout 4's next-gen update a go. If you're wondering what time the next-gen update's set to actually arrive, then you're very much in the right place.

We got a bunch of info on what the next-gen update will include as part of its surprise announcement a couple of weeks ago. As well as bringing the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in native fashion, the update'll offer a host of graphical tweaks and bug fixes that very depending on which platform you're on. It also includes plenty of Creation Club goodies being given away for free - including some Enclave Remnants content, new makeshift weapons, and, er, Halloween decorations for the workshop.

So, when will all of that drop? Well, the answer is that, while Bethesda did let us know that April 25 is defintely the update's arrival date, it didn't actually specify an exact times as to when it'll drop. Sadly, all we can do is twiddle our thumbs and wait.

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As recent player numbers for the series have shown, Amazon's Fallout TV show has a whole bunch of us playing and thinking about Fallout right now. In the case of one fan, Fallout 3's been the title they've decided to take a trip down memory lane to - having decided to start working a cool demake of it for the Gameboy.

While Fallout 4's the entry in the series getting a next-gen update today, returing to the Capital Wasteland's also well worth doing. After all, your dad's Liam Neeson, and who's going to go on a wild goose chase after him if you don't?

The Fallout fan behind this demake, who goes by Aggressive-Film3872, has posted a fun little video showing off their current progress on it running via an emulator to the Fallout subreddit - basically giving us a glimpse at what their version of the game's intro sequence looks like. It's that, plus the start of the series of flashbacks in Vault 101 that we've all seen hundreds of times, including the Lone Wanderer's birth, all rendered in classic retro style.

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Massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London is finally releasing today, July 25, following over five years of development and a number of delays. If you're wondering whether you can play Fallout: London on your Xbox or PlayStation console, then you're very much in the right place.

If you're somehow unfamiliar with Fallout: London, it's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 set in a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. Basically, it stars Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon and even a former Speaker of the UK's House of Commons, and it's a Fallout thing. What else could you want? So, here's a rundown of whether you can play it on console.

Sadly, the answer, at least at launch, is no - at least not in full. As the mod's team has written in the FAQ section of its website: "We do not plan to bring Fallout: London to any platform other than PC at this time. Specific standalone items may be released separately. The community has the permission to convert said standalone items to other platforms."

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Hello there. You might be aware that, following the arrival of Amazon's Fallout TV show lots of people have been, well, playing Fallout games. It's a trend that's been pushing modding sites into new territory when it comes to serving folks ways to spice up their favorite Fallout, and now Bethesda's casually revealed some of the actual player numbers involved.

It's important to note that - while hype for the second season of Amazon's Fallout is already building - Fallout 4's next-gen update hasn't even dropped quite yet. So, there's probably a chance the numbers I'm about to chuck at your face have a chance to climb at least a little bit further soon.

In a couple of tweets form the offical Fallout account, Bethesda revealed that "almost five million" players were recorded in total across all of the titles in the Fallout series during a single day recently. To put that in context, that's almost a million more people than the entire estimated population of Croatia as of 2022 - which was just over 3.8 million - playing the likes of Fallout 4, New Vegas, and probably like five people playing Fallout: Tactics.

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Amazon's Fallout show set up a fan favourite location from the games, though it's sounding like you don't need to worry too much about your own headcanon.

Big spoilers ahead for the end of the Fallout series.

With the knowledge that the Fallout show would be set in what once was California, fans were of course wondering if one particular area from the games would show up or not - that being New Vegas, obviously, given that they're neighbouring states. And as shown right at the end of the series, Lucy's dad Hank has stormed his way over to New Vegas in a piece of power armour, presumably setting up that we'll be seeing a lot of the locale in season 2 (which was confirmed last week). If you were one of those people making that presumption, you'd be right! As co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet recently spoke with GQ, where they briefly spoke about New Vegas as a season 2 setting.

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Today, April 23, was orginally supposed to be the release date of Fallout: London, with the massive mod being pencilled in for St Georges's Day following a delay late last year. However, Fallout 4's long-awaited next-gen update ended up putting pay to that idea, given its potential to break several elements of the mod just two days after its planned release.

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. We've been getting regular updates from the team behind it over the past couple of years, but its release date is now up in the air due to Fallout 4's next-gen update being set to drop on April 25.

After outlining how the update would affect the mod's release plans in a video just over a week ago, Fallout: London's project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter, has now provided a bit more insight into the effects the changes the update's neccessitated have affected things via an interview with the BBC. He also went a little bit more in-depth regarding Bethesda's apparent lack of communication with the mod's team regarding the update - something he touched on in that initial video.

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While Fallout 4's next-gen update hasn't even dropped yet, Amazon's Fallout TV show has already been driving droves of players back to the series. Naturally, a lot these returning wastelanders have been grabbing mods to spice up their experiences - about two Skyrim's per second worth, actually.

Yup, as they fill the void of not having a second season to immediately binge - though one is very much on the way - people have been busy downloading plenty of overhauls, weapons, and even Walton Goggins billboards.

As outlined in a new post by community manager Demorphic, modding site Nexus Mods has basically been struggling to keep up with that demand for the past little bit.

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Fallout. It's a series of games about what happens when someone pushes that big red button to drop the nukes, damning an alternate timeline version of humanity to spend an eternity doing fun little quests among the rubble. Within that, there's scope for some of the best RPG fun you can get, no matter what kind of fun it is that you're looking for in an RPG.

We've all thought about what'd happen if the bombs were to actually fall, and since 1997, first Interplay and Black Isle, now Bethesda - with some help from Obsidian and now Amazon, have offered us a chance to see just how we might fare if forced to roam the radioactive streets of post-apocalyptic America. The answer in reality is that we'd all probably die very quickly, but hey, that's what video games are for - to give us a chance to dream.

But, which of the Fallouts is the best? It's a loaded question for sure, an one you'll end up answering differently depending on what you want out of a Fallout game. However, because the terrifying beast that pulls the strings of our world has yanked it in a direction where things need to be ranked on websites, here's our attempt to do just that for the Fallout series, both main-line entries and all the spin-offs that're actually worth caring about.

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Following Amazon's Fallout TV show, folks have been hopping en masse back into their favorite games in the series. If that's been Fallout 4 for you, and you want a way to spice your playthrough up, you're in luck, as one of the game's most pupular perk overhaul mods has just gotten a fresh revamp.

Yup, because it's all well and good building your own version of Lucy, Maximus, or The Ghoul to play as, a big part of the Fallout experience comes from creating your own unique little vault dweller to take on the wasteland as. Plus, you might want a way to inject something fresh into your playthrough build-wise, especially if you're planning on waiting until your other mods have been updated before hopping into Fallout 4's next-gen update.

Enter 'Hot Diggity - Skills Perks - Redux' by modder FishFiend. Building on the work they did on the original Hot Diggity a few years ago, this 2.0 version has the same goal - make Fallout 4 a bit more diverse character-building wise, in order to make it more fun to play for the 50th, or thousandth, time.

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Somebody’s lost their dad. Again.

He’s wandered off into the wasteland, beyond the safety of the vault. He’s left one place trapped in its own little time bubble, and walked into another which - in the case of a lot of the Fallout things we’ve gotten over the past decade or so - feels like it’s also stuck largely in the same state.

Even now, a full 219 years after the bombs dropped and the world burned, it’s still largely the same scorched mess, sparsely scarred with small pockets of struggling civilisation, that it was back in 2161, when a dweller emerged from Vault 13. It’s still just as haunted by the spectre of doom as the capital was in 2277. That same sense of desperation that existed around Boston back in 2287, before that superhuman DIY nut was unfrozen, lives on.

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TV shows are alarmingly short these days. Long gone is the era of 26 episode seasons. Nowadays, you're lucky to get ten episodes per year of your favourite show. With Fallout, the absolute television event of the year, we've had to make do with just eight installments. Sure, that means there's very little fat or filler in there, but damnit, we just want to spend more time in the wasteland with those particular characters. Because, let's be frank, the TV show is great. Even the director of the original game thinks so.

Well, enter Zoe from our sister publication Eurogamer with this handy video guide for building Lucy MacLean, Maximus, and The Ghoul as your Fallout 4 protagonist, and just in time for the long-awaited current gen update coming next week. Sure, you'll have to fill in some of the gaps with your imagination, but that's what role playing is all about. This guide is for the vanilla game and doesn't utilise any mods, so console players are welcome to get stuck in.

So check out the video above. Anything to take the sting out of the long wait for season 2, right?

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It's now less than a week until Fallout 4's long-awaited next-gen update drops on April 25, bringing with it a bunch of tweaks for different platforms and some fresh goodies you can grab for free. If you're on PC the only issue with that is that updates - especially big ones - tend to play havoc with mods when they first drop, but modding platform Nexus Mods is taking some steps to try and make that transition a bit less of a headache.

It's good news, because you probably aren't alone if you've felt unable to stop yourself kicking off a frssh modded playthrough of Fallout 4 after watching Amazon's Fallout TV show, which is now confirmed to be getting a second season. So, while this won't cover Fallout: London, which is a bit different, here's what things'll likely look like modding-wise when the update drops.

In a new post, Nexus Mods community manager Pickysaurus has shared a bit of a rundown of the issues this Fallout 4 update will likely cause when it comes to modding, and a couple of handy steps that that the site's taking to help you muddle through the initial aftermath of its arrival.

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You there! Stop playing through through Fallout 4 again! Amazon's Fallout TV show is now officially confirmed to be getting a second season, as pretty much all of us had hoped following the stellar reaction to its debut series.

Yup, after increasing everyone's appreciation for Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell's ability to say 'okey dokey' in about fifteen different tones, as well as providing loads of fun little references and easter eggs to dissect, the show's set to continue. To be fair - spoilers - you probably guessed that it would likely be doing so when you saw how it ended.

A tweet from the show's official account first revealed this good news, slap bang in the middle on the night UK time. "Wouldn't want to keep you on the edge of your seat, now, would we?", the slightly sarky post read, "See you back in the Wasteland for SEASON 2."

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Odds are if you're a Fallout fan, you've already, for better or worse, blazed through Amazon's Fallout TV show. It's probably left you feeling like hopping back into your Fallout game of choice, and if that's Fallout 4, a new mod is definitely worth grabbing, mainly because it involves Walton Goggins.

Yup, we here at VG247 - even Tom - love the Goggins, and we loved seeing him in Fallout, both in raw (regular Goggins) and chargrilled (ghoul) form. He's so beautiful and funny you almost forget to take in all of the fun little references and easter eggs from the games that're constantly surrounding him.

Anyway, the mod that I'm about to say some things about is called 'Cooper Howard Billboard ( TV show)', it's by modder MrBloodjack, and no, I won't give you a bottle of Nuka Cola if you can guess what it does.

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Before I get started, I'm going to have to ask you to put your guns down, because here's the thing: I don't really like the Fallout games. My first experience of actually playing them was with Fallout 4, which I do admit isn't the best way to start things off for a franchise that has run as long as it has, but it is what it is. I managed to make it a few hours into Fallout 4, but to be honest I just didn't vibe with it. The game did a pretty bad job at making me care about my baby, and I just felt a bit listless heading out into the wastelands. Not to mention the fact that I really didn't care for the stiff, boring shooting that becomes all the more painful when you encounter a flying enemy, V.A.T.S. or not.

Past that point, I've seen a good bit of playthroughs of both 3 and New Vegas, yet I more found people goofing around in them fun rather than actually enjoying what the games were doing themselves. When it comes to the OG, CRPG titles, well, I'm not really big on the genre except for rare instances (like Disco Elysium and my beloved Kim Kitsuragi). My partner, however, loves Fallout 4 - or, I should say they love to build bases and hang out with certain characters, they couldn't give a radroach's ass about that baby either. But their previous hyperfixations with the game have led to several info-dumping sessions that mean I'm broadly familiar with Fallout's post-apocalypse world.

And so, I felt well-enough prepared to watch Amazon's live-action adaptation of the RPG series, even if I was expecting to come away from it a bit ambivalent. After all, what interest could I have in it when it just hasn't worked out for me so far, right down to some of the games' aesthetic choices? Surprisingly enough, though, I… actually really enjoyed the show. Shock horror, right? This series the appeal of which has long been lost on me suddenly drawing me in?

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If you've watched all of Amazon's Fallout TV show by now, odds are you're either on the verge of - or already have - hopped back into one of the games in the series. You're certainly not alone in the regard, but if you've picked Fallout 4 on Xbox specifically, you might have run into the small problem of achievements just not unlocking.

Yup, while it arguably feels like the vast majority of the architecture, gear, and items featured in the show - alongside all those other references, easter eggs, and cameos - are specifically designed to get you to head back to Boston, Boston's not ready to reward you for coming back.

As a number of folks who've decided to emerge from Vault 111 again have been reporting (thanks, TrueAchievements), Fallout 4's achievements on Xbox aren't doing what they should be. It seems like this has been an issue since the final days of March, since which point, the poor Sole Survivors on Microsoft's console haven't been able to be thanked for doing things like saving Preston Garvey, or playing Atomic Command on their Pip-Boy.

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Warning: Major spoilers for series one of Amazon's Fallout TV show lie ahead.

Ok, so most of us have all had a little bit of time to watch Amazon's Fallout TV show now.

But what if you maybe watched it in bits, rather than all in one go, or felt like certain things weren't quite made clear enough? What if you want an explanation of what it is you just watched, and which bits of what happened to its trio of main characters you should have been paying the most attention to, instead of geeking out over, I don't know, the fact that Lucy was eating some actual YumYum Deviled Eggs?

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There's a number from Amazon's Fallout series that can actually be called, only the person that picks up doesn't send all that pleased to hear from you.

Light spoilers ahead for the Fallout show.

Whenever there's a phone number clearly shown in a piece of media, the first question should always be "does anything happen when you call this number?" A lot of the time it won't lead to anything, as they're often fake, but sometimes production companies will set it up so that when you call the number you're met with a fun, in-world message. For example, actually calling Saul Goodman's number from Breaking Bad will net you a fake message from his office, which is a fun one. Amazon's Fallout series released just last week, and in the sixth episode there's a flashback featuring Walton Goggins' character performing in an ad for Vault-Tec.

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Turns out that the Fallout show has gotten everyone in the mood to play the games, as pretty much every title in the series has seen their player count skyrocket.

Last week, Prime Video finally released its live-action adaptation of Fallout, which was quickly met with positive reviews all around. So, it should come as no surprise that players would get a hankering for the games too, which is exactly what happened. In fact, at least according to SteamDB stats, players returned to all of the Fallout games in droves, though some admittedly more than others. Fallout 4 saw the most players in game over the weekend, hitting a player count peak of 83,491 on Sunday - bear in mind a week earlier the game's player count peak was at around 24,000, so it's more than tripled its player count following the release of the show last week.

It's Fallout 76 that took home a new record this weekend, though, a game you should absolutely hop onto now you've finished the show. The multiplayer take on the classic RPG franchise actually achieved an all-time high concurrent player count, hitting 39,455 players all in the game at once on Sunday. Not bad for a game that was received quite poorly at launch, but clearly people wanted to rebuild the wasteland with their friends thanks to the show. Fallout: New Vegas is doing well for itself too, though not quite as well as 76 or 4, but it did manage to hit a peak of 19,505 players.

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“When I think of the fanbase, I do think of those early days when we first announced Fallout 3,” ex-Bethesda artist Jonah Lobe tells me, “We got a lot of hate."

“A lot of those older players felt protective of the franchise - which I can certainly understand, as the IP is immensely unique and special - and some of that translated into hate mail and even death threats, prompting Bethesda to hire its first security guard,” he continues, “So yeah, certainly a passionate fanbase.

“Joking aside, Fallout fans really care about Fallout. They understand that the world of Fallout is very special, and the experience of playing Fallout - with its grit, humour, choice, and unique world-building - is unlike any other. These days, most Fallout fans I meet tell me that their first exposure to the franchise was through Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, and their feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.”

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Odds are if you're a Fallout fan, you've either already blazed through Amazon's Fallout TV show, or are dilligently working your way through the episodes when life allows. No matter how far you are in, one of the things you'll definitely seen is the cool tranqiliser pistol being wielded by Lucy. If you a big fan of it, a new Fallout 4 mod is definitely for you.

If you're somehow out of the loop, Lucy is the show's vault dweller, and, from the moment she starts facing the terrors of the wasteland, she's got a dart gun at her side, which obviously comes in quite handy at times. The weapon's very futuristic-looking design definitely caught the attention of one veteran modder, who's been working on bringing it to The Commonwealth for a little while now.

The modder in question is Neeher, whom we spoke to about his work on the upcoming Fallout: London earlier this year. This TV show gun is a standalone work from him, dubbed the 'Select Blaster', to bring it in line with a lot of Neeher's other Fallout 4 weapon mods.

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So, we finally got news of Fallout 4's long-awaited next-gen update yesterday, following plenty of silence on the subject from Bethesda. Since it's set to drop on April 25, just two days after Fallout: London's release on April 23, one of the big questions right away was how the update might affect the massive mod. Well, the good news is, it looks like Team FOLON already has a plan.

If you're unfamiliar with Fallout: London, it's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests, later this month. We've been getting regular updates from the team behind it over the past couple of years, including one as part of modding showcase C3 back in February - which actually saw Team FOLON acknowledge that a situation exactly like this with the next-gen update could well come to pass.

Since it now has, Fallout: London's project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter, has put out a statement via the mod's Discord server, outlining what the group's plan of action is. "As some of you may have noticed, Bethesda is scheduled to release an update to Fallout 4 just two days after our intended release date," he wrote, "We are actively monitoring the situation closely.

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With comic book projects self-regulating and becoming just another genre (with some exceptions), monster brawls becoming a thing in the West, and star-studded originals regaining lost ground, the post-pandemic Hollywood landscape, both in theaters and on TV, looks nothing like the pre-2020 tug-of-war. There's always a big thing, however, and now, after Fallout's success, it's all but confirmed that video game adaptations are next in line.

Fallout is just the last big hit in a short but remarkable line of good endings that include Illumination's Super Mario Bros. Movie, HBO's The Last of Us (now shooting season 2), Peacock's Twisted Metal (also renewed), and Five Nights at Freddy's (getting a second movie), among others. Even if critics don't always agree with audiences and we still have middling stuff like the Halo show, there's been a previously unseen upwards trajectory as of late, and we can't deny the signs anymore. This is what Hollywood will be chasing next.

Part of what's making these adaptations work better now than in the past is a more hands-on approach from games publishers and studios. Long gone are the days of just giving a juicy IP away and letting the highest bidder go wild with it, though stuff like Uncharted made us frankly wonder whether Sony truly understands what made the famous video game franchise so appealing in the first place.

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Boo! After eons of silence, Bethesda has finally provided us with an update on Fallout 4's long-awaited next-gen update. It's coming later this month on April 25, an it's got some stuff in it, which I'll explain below.

As outlined in a new blog post, the update is actually coming as serveal versions, all aimed at different platforms. So, wherever you're playing Fallout 4, you should be in line to benefit from your own bunch of tweaks, as well as some free Creation Club goodies. Though, sadly, the update's timing means it'll land pretty close to Fallout: London's release on April 23, so we'll have to see if that has any repercussions for the massive mod.

For next-gen consoles, that's PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, the update will include native applications for those devices, plus "performance mode and Quality mode settings, as well as stability improvements and fixes." Those on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will just get "stability improvements, login and quest fixes".

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Warning: Major spoilers for the first series of Amazon's Fallout TV Show lie ahead.

Ok, so, Amazon's Fallout TV Show is finally here, having dropped either on the evening on April 10, or in the middle of the night early on April 11, depending on where you live. Since all of the episodes dropped at once, as modern series are often wont to do, some people have naturally binged all the way through it, or at least a good way through it.

As those who've made it all the way through to the finale, likely with bags under their eyes, have discovered, the show ends with a bit of set up for a potential season two, with a certain location being the big thing that you'll probably get pretty excited about.

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What would you like to see from Fallout 5? It's a question every Fallout fan has their own answer, or answers in the case of lost of us, to. For ex-Bethesda artist Jonah Lobe, the answer involves something giant and radioactive, which might have made it into Fallout 4, had it not threatened to break the game in more ways than you'd be broken if it stomped on you.

If you're not a religious collector of tidbits about titles in the Fallout series, you might not have heard of the passion project Lobe - who, among plenty of other stuff, produced the designs for iconic enemies like Fallout 4's Deathclaws and Skyrim's Dragons - worked on during the former's development, before having to shelve it. Luckily, it's a pretty easy concept to explain.

What if the wasteland was home to the biggest ghoul you've ever seen?

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Eek, it's just a matter of hours until Amazon's Fallout TV Show drops later today! If you're planning on watching it right away, first of all, I hope you're not at work tomorrow if you're in the UK, give that it drops at 2AM our time, and second, thanks to a member of the Fallout community, you can even play a fun little game while you binge.

Yep, we all know people like you and me who play the video games have incredibly short attention spans, so someone's nicely designed a very fitting way to keep our eyes glued to the screen, even if Walton Goggins is incapable of reaching out and dragging our faces close to the TV (I assume).

Say hello to the spoiler-free Fallout TV bingo cards Fallout content creator and streamer JessicaStar has put together. There are ten of them, and they're all chock full of classic Fallout cliches and situations the denizens of the wasteland just can't seem to avoid getting into.

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Boo! You know the Fallout TV Show, that thing that was originally gonna drop on April 12, and up until today we all thought was dropping on April 11? Well, now it's dropping slightly earlier still, because its release date won't stop scrabbling forwards like a feral ghoul that's survived have its legs blown off.

Yep, you've now got slightly less of a wait to see what Lucy, The Ghoul and their friendly neigbourhood Brotherhood of Steel knight. Also, it looks like plans are already being put in place for a second series of the show, assuming it ends up getting one, so the episodes going live this week might not be the only time we get to spend with the trio.

As announced by the show's official Twitter account, "the end of the world is coming, just a little sooner than expected", with Amazon's Fallout now set to arrive via Prime Video on April 10 at 6PM PT. That's 2AM GMT on April 11 for UK folks and a slightly more reasonable time of 9PM ET on the tenth for those on US east coast time.

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Thinking about checking out Prime Video's Fallout show, but don't have a subscription? You'll be able to watch the first episode for free, but only on Twitch.

Later this week, on April 12, the Fallout show is finally making its way to Prime Video, with all eight episodes dropping on the streaming service at once. If you're desperate to watch it, though, you'll be able to do so on April 11. As announced by Twitch on Twitter, a selection of streamers will be hosting the first episode so you can watch it before the full series arrives. It's a little unclear how exactly that will work, as Twitch only announced last month that its Prime Video watch parties feature would be shut down on April 2, which has come and gone. It's possible that the selected streamers have been provided an early copy, of course, but several users on Twitter did question the decision considering the removal of the feature.

It's also seemingly been a frustrating point for some smaller streamers, who would have liked to host a watch party with their community, but that ability is being limited to the selection of streamers listed by twitch. On top of that, other users also questioned the fact that hardly any of the streamers hosting the first episode are Fallout streamers/ creators, a point that has irked some. If none of this bothers you, though, here's the full list of streamers that will be hosting a watch party for the first episode:

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As you might be aware, one of the many themes of the Fallout series is that allowing a world to be filled with with lots of big corporations sucking up resources at an unsustainable rate in pursuit of endless growth will, er, probably not end well. Apparently, this is something the Fallout TV Show's creators were keen to capture, despite the fact the series is being released exclusively via the streaming service of, er, Amazon.

To be fair, it does very much sound like the show's creators are very aware of the dissonance that comes from projecting the message 'unchecked corporations bad' via the airwaves of a corportation that continues to expand to levels where interacting with it's basically unavoidable a lot of the time.

Speaking to TheGamer, showrunner Graham Wagner touched on how the show's creators have approached that issue. "For us, it was part of the appeal, the absurdity of that," he explained, "That we get to tell a story about a world that bet big on mega-corporations and it collapsed and put it on Amazon is too delicious for words."

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The Fallout TV Show drops on Amazon Prime later this week, and if you're replaying Fallout 4 while you wait for April 11 to arrive, a new mod definitely looks like it's worth grabbing. It's one for all the merch freaks out there, as it adds a backpack to the game that's the spitting image of the one the show's vault dweller, Lucy, has been shown wearing as she traverses the wastes.

Yup, we've already had fan films adding a new concluding scene to the Sole Survivor's adventure this month, and now they've been gifted a fresh way of showing they're keeping up with the trends, as they lug ten million bits of scrap around The Commonwealth. To be fair, they did lose their spouse and all that, so they probably deserve all of this nice stuff.

In case you're wondering what 'Lucy's Vault-Tec Backpack' by QwibQwibMods is based on, I'll direct you to some of the promo screens for Amazon's Fallout TV Show, which feature the protagonist, Lucy (Ella Purnell), rocking a nice rucksack that matches her classic blue and yellow vault suit. The mod, as you'd imagine, adds a bag inspired by it to Fallout 4, so you can twin with your new Californian vault bezzie.

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